Nevada Plasma Facility Lab
About NPFL:
NPFL hosts a ThermoFisher ScientificTM iCAP Q Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometer (ICP-MS). The wet chemistry lab is equipped with a Milli-Q® Integral Water Purification System, and a Savillex DST-1000 Acid Purification System.
With such facilities, this lab provides elemental abundance measurements of almost all non-volatile elements in both natural and synthetic samples, ranging from water/ice, soils to silicate rocks. The detection limits can be as low as ppt to ppb level, depending on the sample matrix. The external reproducibility is typical at several percentage level, but can be pushed to 1% level if necessary.
In Spring 2021, we have received and installed a ESI 193 nm Excimer NWR193 laser ablation system, which is coupled to the existing iCAPTM Qc ICP-MS. We have also received a Sapphire Multi-Collector Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry (MC-ICP-MS).